With the release of their second album Here Comes Everybody fast approaching (out Friday 24 June via AWAL), today ARIA Award winners Spacey Jane reveal their new single and video Hardlight.

Hardlight was given its First Play on BBC Radio 1 with Jack Saunders. Vocalist and guitarist Caleb Harper says of the track, “I wrote this song about how I was feeling like my life was a bit like one of those nightmares where you’re at school with no pants.  Except I used the metaphor of being on set and forgetting all of your lines (because it felt less silly).  I guess it’s about anxiety but also just having no idea what I’m doing even though I want it to look like I really do.”

He continues on the video, “Finding time to produce music videos in between touring can be pretty squishy and occasionally calls for spontaneous and strange ideas – Hardlight was one of those.  This was our second time working with Nick, he created the concept for and workshopped the Lunchtime music video remotely due to covid border restrictions, so it was great to have him on set this time.  The brief was pretty simple:  We had a day off in Melbourne and we wanted to film a whole performance-based video that felt interesting and exciting.  Nick pitched the charter boat and we loved it straight away, we got to dance around on a party boat on the Yarra River for six hours, it was a lot of fun.”

The new single comes along with the exciting news that the band will embark on a mammoth Australian album tour this August. Taking in all the capital cities, the tour will put on full display the captivating live show that the band is renowned for.

Fans who pre-order Here Comes Everybody through the Spacey Jane web store before Sunday 22 May at 11:59pm AEST, and anyone who has already pre-ordered the album, will receive a code for first access to tickets starting at 10am local time on Tuesday 24 May. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday 27 May at 10am local time.

It’s been a heavy year of touring for the band with a 17-date UK and European tour completed in April and a 24-date tour coming for North America in October and November, with some shows sold out months in advance.

Taken from the working title of Wilco’s seminal album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (one of the bands’ favourite albums) Here Comes Everybody first came to life at the start of the 2020 lockdown. The album features recent singles It’s Been A Long Day,  Sitting Up, Lots of Nothing which landed at #3 on the triple j hottest 100 and Lunchtime which also took out the #12 position on the coveted poll. There will be two exclusive limited edition vinyl’s available for the album. One via JBHIFI will be Neon Orange and includes an exclusive poster. The other is via the Spacey Jane Official Store and is a translucent Blue Vinyl includes signed art card (till stocks run out). 

The beginning of Spacey Jane’s astonishing success in Australia arrived when the band released debut album Sunlight in June 2020.  Universal adulation duly followed for the band – vocalist and guitarist Caleb Harper, bassist Peppa Lane, guitarist Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu and drummer and manager Kieran Lama. The album debuted at #2 on the ARIA album chart, was voted Album of the Year in the triple j Listener’s Poll, was nominated for a J Award for Album of the Year and is now certified Gold.  The sleeper single-turned-megahit, Booster Seat picked up Song Of The Year at the 2021 ARIA’s, the AIR Awards Best Independent Song Of The Year and is certified platinum. It currently sits at over 35 million streams on Spotify alone, with the band hitting 180 million in total streams. Booster Seat also landed at #2 on the triple j hottest 100 in 2021, alongside Skin at #15, Straightfaced at #28 and Weightless at #81.